A 16-year-old brought radio to Memphis. Alfred Cowles, a junior at Central High School, built his own transmitter to play recorded music and read stories during evening broadcasts from his Vance Avenue backyard on Amateur Radio Station 5NZ. The first sound on the airwaves here was the famous tenor Enrico Caruso singing Italian opera . The year was 1920.
You've got your iPod, your acoustic guitar, a box of bootleg cassettes and maybe even a crate of your favorite wax -- you're set up for the school year, right? Well, it's a good start, but what are you gonna do when the craving for new tunes hits? The affliction might even strike when you're at your most vulnerable -- at 1 a.m. in an empty dorm room. A thirst for fresh music cannot be quenched by warm beer, though it's tempting to try. There's always illegal file-sharing programs (unless, like Middle-bury College, your school has a deal with Napster), but who wants the stinging guilt of ripping off record companies? On nights -- and mornings -- like these, you'll need the human touch. Thankfully, there's a trusty friend on your radio dial and browser window. Incoming students, meet coll...
College radio has always tried to give people what they didn't know they wanted. At Wright State University's student-run WWSU, the focus is on new, different -- anything but Top 40. We play music you can't hear anyplace else," said Program Director Juliet Fromholt, a senior classics major.
WFDU has built up a loyal following as it celebrates its 40th anniversary of broadcasting from the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck. At most college radio stations, the joke is nobody is listening to you. But not here," said Kenny O'Boyle of Wayne, a student who hosts a country music show on Thursday afternoons. "The phones are ringing off the hook the entire show. Listeners treat it like a jukebox.
The community circled its wagons around King Drew Medical Center because we felt that the institution stood as a symbol of our competence as a people. When it came under attack, we felt like we were under attack, so naturally, our first reaction was to come to its defense. But the fact is, while King Drew provides a convenient symbol to point to for bragging rights when times are good, in reality, it never did represent who we are as a people, during good times or bad. Although the King Drew Medical Center carries an illustrious name and is located in the Black community, it's simply an institution, and therefore, a microcosm of the world at laige. It's made up of a combination of people-competent, and incompetent, caring, and uncaring-just like any White run institution. Also like any ...
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Schoolkids' sales have dwindled considerably over the last decade. In 1998, [Ric Culross] says Buena Vista Social Club's self-tided album was the Chapel Hill location's top-selling record, selling 760 copies. In 2007, The Shins' Wincing the Night Away earned that top spot but sold less than half that number. The music industry's slumping sales are systemic and well-documented, and record stores continue to closfc Rhino Records in Los Angeles dosed in 2005, the same year The Guardian reported the 'Virgin Mega Stores chain had lost 260 million British pounds in the previous two years. The stores began closing in 2006. As many as 20 Schoolkids Records outlets once dotted college towns along the East Coast Now, they remain only in Raleigh and Athens, Ga. Indeed, less than half of a mile awa...
... to at least one of the area's college radio stations or WCOM in Carrboro. With so much indepen...
Being a radio station that is under the auspices of an institution of higher learning, 89.3 WKKC-FM will no longer bleep, delete or edit out the offensive language in the songs we play," [Marv Dyson] says. "We simply won't play them at all. In other words enough is enough! "If we do not respect ourselves and our brothers and sisters in the lyrics that are created, how can we expect others to respect us? If Hip-Hop is the music of today," he says, "let's begin to create a genre of Hip-Hop music that we can be proud of today and tomorrow." "Hey, Teesee," Dyson continues, "Wouldn't it be great if all college radio stations around the country followed our lead? I think it would send a powerful message to the record labels and Hip-Hop artists." I agree!
Correction appended University of Missouri Tigers games no longer will be heard on Cumulus Radio stations after the college basketball season.
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